MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massively open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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